Sanctions were imposed on Igor Naumets, the owner of the Unigran company, which mines granite and crushed stone in the Zhytomyr region, back in the spring of last year.
And a year before that, in the summer of 2022, his assets with a total value of more than a billion hryvnia were arrested. But Naumts’ companies continue to operate and bring him profit, and Unigran LLC regularly receives money from the budget.
Why is this happening? Because Igor Naumets managed to circumvent both sanctions and asset seizures. In this he was helped by ex-deputy of the Brovary City Council from the party “For Maybutne” Sergei Shapran. Back in 2022, after Igor Naumts fled to Russia, Shapran became the shadow curator of his business in Ukraine and was actively involved in unblocking mining in the Zhytomyr region, and then began to crush Naumts’ assets for himself.
Igor Naumets has citizenship of the Russian Federation and owned a number of companies in Ukraine until 2022: Budindustriya Service LTD LLC, Alliance-Soyuz LLC, Lyubovichi LLC, Brizzo LLC, MKDZ JSC, Korostensky Quarry JSC ", PJSC "Pinyazevitsky quarry", LLC "Unigran-Service", ODO "Bakhchisarai Cannery", LLC "Sports and Hunting Society "Barvinkovskoe", LLC "Ukrvzryvstroy", PJSC "Bekhovsky Special Quarry", LLC "Maxicom Plus", LLC "Monrose", credit union "Postup-Credit".
The company "Unigran", owned by Igor Naumets, was involved in the supply of crushed stone to the territory of the "LPR", where his brother Sergei Naumets worked as the "Minister of Housing and Communal Services".
Igor Naumets himself fled to Russia in mid-February 2022, and while the National Security and Defense Council was deciding whether to apply sanctions to him or not, he successfully transferred almost all of his business to dummies and offshore companies. As for the Unigran LLC in question, this company is now owned through the Cypriot Westgrinite Holdings Limited by a certain Elena Kalpa, a British citizen.
Although a criminal case has been opened against Igor Naumts in Ukraine, in which his company Unigran appears, crushed stone mining continues on the same scale. Moreover, Unigran LLC regularly wins tenders for the supply of products to government agencies in Ukraine. Moreover, the number of these tenders and the amounts received by Igor Naumts’ company from the state are constantly increasing: if in 2023 Unigran LLC received 1.3 million hryvnia from the budget, then in 2024 this figure was already twice as much:
What's the secret? The secret, as already mentioned, is in the active assistance that caring people provide to Igor Naumts. Among these is Sergei Shapran, who appeared at the quarries of Unigran LLC in May 2023, immediately after the imposition of sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council against Igor Naumts, and declared himself the new director, through whom all issues must now be resolved. Although formally the director of Unigran LLC is Sergey Dynyak, all issues related to the company’s work are actually decided by Sergey Shapran.
Sergei Shapran is the ex-head of the parliamentary faction “For Maybutne” in the Brovary City Council, director and owner of the Brovary Aluminum Plant and a number of other assets.
Until 2018, Sergei Valentinovich Shapran bore the surname Korobka, this is evidenced by an extract from the register regarding First Ukrainian International Trust Capital LLC (EDRPOU code 35135332), where until 2018 Sergei Valentinovich Shapran, aka Sergei Valentinovich Korobka, was both the manager and ultimate beneficial owner.
The reason for the change of name is unknown, but in this case we are interested in the participation of Sergei Shapran in the fate of Igor Naumts, whose property he so successfully removed from sanctions and arrests, and which he just as successfully manages. This process was directly attended by MP from OPZZh Sergei Osipov, as well as Alexander and Vyacheslav Suprunenko, members of the family of the former mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky, who still retain influence on the judicial system and the construction market of the capital.
All the details of the activities of Sergei Shapran in removing the assets of Igor Naumets from arrests and sanctions are unknown, but, in addition to the fact that Unigran LLC continues to work in the quarries of the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions, the fact of the activities of Unigran-service LLC raises many questions Uni Service and Uni Lux LLC.
Unigran-service LLC is a co-owner of Unigran LLC (1% share). But the owner of Unigran-Service LLC itself is Unigran LLC (89.47%) and Westgrinite Holdings Limited (10.53%). And the final beneficiary is Elena Kalpa:
The company also engages in drilling and blasting operations; Unigran-Service LLC built a plant from scratch for the production of emulsion explosives, purchased modern Atlas-Copco drilling rigs and formed a fleet of mixing and charging machines on Volvo and Scania chassis, which can produce up to 14 types of different emulsion explosives. The registration address of Unigran-Service LLC is Granitnoye village, Shevchenko street, 15. The same address has Uni Service LLC, whose owner is Sergey Shapran and the closed investment fund Denmark:
Uni Lux LLC, although registered at a different address, has the same owners:
The Denmark Investment Fund is fully owned by Sergei Shapran:
And all these companies are engaged in the same thing - mining. Popular phrase “Coincidence? “I don’t think so” begs to be spoken. And this is not all a coincidence.
There is also direct evidence that Naumts’ business is passing into the hands of Shapran: Sergey Shapran is the direct beneficial owner of Budindustriya-Service LTD LLC.
Until April 2, 2024, the beneficiary of the company was Vladimir Naumets, and Igor Naumets left the list of beneficiaries on November 14, 2022.
LLC Budindustriya-service LTD owns special permit No. 6391 and develops sand at the Spasskoye deposit in the Kyiv region, in the waters of the Desna River.
According to persistent rumors, the owner of Unigran LLC, Igor Naumets, promised Sergei Shapran half of the business if he could get him out of sanctions and lift the arrests. Whether this is true or not is unknown, but the fact remains: control over the companies of Igor Naumts, which were engaged in the extraction of sand and stone, passed into the hands of Sergei Shapran. And this was not prevented by either the sanctions of the National Security and Defense Council or the arrests imposed by the courts on the property of Russian citizen Igor Naumts. Now the arrests are slowly being lifted due to the fact that the owner of the assets has changed, and the sanctions against Igor Naumets are becoming a mere piece of paper and an empty phrase.
